People who release too many damn albums! Pt. 2 (Current 93)

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I own a couple of the early noise records and one of the mid-period folk records, but I am nowhere near familiar enough with their discography to make any real judgements. What in David Tibet's labrynthian catalogue is actually worth owning? Conventional wisdom seems to hold that the early noise pastiche records are the best and the dark folk albums are pretty hit-or-miss. Is this correct or are there later gems?

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty much everyone I know who is into them (this = about 2 people) likes the dark folk stuff better. If you can get past Tibet's voice then I'd agree but it's hard going.

They've put out a BEST OF hooray so the too-many-albums problem is sidestepped. It's called Calling For Vanished Faces and as far as I can tell works as a cheap and comprehensive intro to what they do.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone give me a Search on some of their Dark Folk Stuff?

While we're at it, can someone give a search on Dark Folk Stuff as a genre?

For example, I have currently been listening to the second Palace Brothers album and the new Appendix Out album which both seem to capture that dark, medieval ambience perfectly. That is what you mean by Dark Folk Stuff, right?

― powertonevolume, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dark folk= folk which is more 'industrial' in nature= current 93.

Appendix out= folk but more melancholic.

Will oldham= americana.

― Julio Desouza, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search "I have a special plan for this world" - recentish non-folk collaboration with Ligotti. One of the best things C93 have ever done

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For dark folky stuff, search: All the Pretty Little Horses.

― Luke, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rotting Christ covers C93's "Lucifer over London" on their "Khronos" album and run satanic rings around this original.

― John Darnielle, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We need more of that. Speaking of which, Mr. D., what is your primary resource for keeping up with the world of monochrome metal doom?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really keep up; I try but I can just barely keep my head above water. Good metal e-zines live and die in a month but are the best resources; Usenet is actually still an occasionally decent resource for underground metal information, though the pimply nazi teenager contingent is pretty prevalent out thataway. http://www.blackmetal.com posts updates every day to their for-sale list; I keep my eye on it and then run searches on band-names that sound interesting. There's also a distro called Red Stream but they usually don't offer descriptions so your record-buying habit has to be so completely incurable that you're willing to routinely order expensive stuff you've never even heard of which may well suck completely just in the faint hope that it'll turn out to actually be the record that opens the gates to hell and defeats Christianity once and for all.

― John Darnielle, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the record that opens the gates to hell and defeats Christianity once and for all

But the P.O.D. record already came out.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

With a press kit as big as all outdoors, too.

― John Darnielle, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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